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The 25th Annual Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction has announced its shortlist for this year’s award. The eight novels on this year’s list, at a time when laughing out loud is definitely the best medicine on the market, make up a stunning shortlist for 2025. This post may contain affiliate links that earn…
Colson Whitehead is an American novelist. He is the author of eight novels, including The Underground Railroad which won 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The Wolfson History Prize Shortlist 2025 has now been announced. Awarded by the Wolfson Foundation annually for over fifty years, the Wolfson History Prize is the UK’s most prestigious history prize.
The Booker Prize Longlist 2025 has just been announced. The longlist of 13 books – the ‘Booker Dozen’ – has been chosen by the 2025 judging panel and features novels from nine different nationalities in a truly global list.
Deborah Levy is a British novelist, playwright and poet. Her notable books include the Booker-shortlisted novels Swimming Home and Hot Milk, as well as the Booker-longlisted The Man Who Saw Everything
Ray Bradbury was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of genres, notably science fiction. Enjoy Top 5 Ray Bradbury Books to Read.
Ryu Murakami is the enfant terrible of contemporary Japanese literature. Awarded the prestigious Akutagawa Prize in 1976 for his first book, he has gone on to explore with cinematic intensity the themes of violence and technology in contemporary Japanese society.
Argentina has a rich literary history with some great authors such as Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar. We’ve selected some classics and some contemporary masterpieces for our 5 Amazing Argentinian Books to Read in English. Enjoy!
Halfway through 2025, it’s been a bumper six months for new books. Of the multitude of fiction releases, here are our favorite reads of 2025 to date. Enjoy 10 Best Books of 2025 (so far)!
Chinua Achebe was Africa’s best-known novelist and the founding father of African fiction. The publication of his first novel, Things Fall Apart, in 1958 served as an inspiration for other authors throughout the African continent.
